Project Grant 2529921
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $243,762 project grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ENVIRONMENTAL FATE AND IMPACTS OF QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS FOLLOWING INCREASED USE DURING THE SARS-COV?2 PANDEMIC." The three-year research project beginning May 15, 2021 will investigate the environmental impacts of increased use of quaternary ammonium...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund a collaborative research project to investigate the chemical and biological determinants of indoor air quality. The $279,959 award to Washington University, starting on May 1, 2025 and ending on April 30, 2028, will explore how building material surface compositions and indoor air pollutants impact microbial gene expression and emissions. The project aims to establish relationships between...
- This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support collaborative research on chemical and biological factors affecting indoor air quality. The $213,226 grant awarded to Case Western Reserve University will investigate how building material surfaces and air pollutant composition impact microbial gene expression and emissions, to better understand and mitigate the drivers of poor indoor air quality. The research...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $499,997 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to fund research aimed at advancing the use of persulfate and powdered activated carbon for in situ capture and destruction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminating groundwater. The 3-year project will: 1) evaluate reaction kinetics for PFAS degradation using the persulfate/activated carbon treatment process, 2)...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $349,600.00 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to investigate the impact of increasing chloride and bromide concentrations, and associated halogenating agents, on viral inactivation mechanisms in drinking water treatment. The 3-year project, running from August 2025 to July 2028, aims to: 1) determine the reaction kinetics between halogenating agents and viral biomolecular...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Regents of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) to develop innovative plasma-assisted dehalogenation processes for recycling or fully mineralizing halogen-containing waste streams, with a focus on PFAS and PVC. This convergent research project will leverage the university's expertise in chemical reaction engineering, plasma science, and environmental engineering to...
- This $440,135 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research at The Johns Hopkins University to develop a novel approach for identifying toxic byproducts and their precursors in drinking water treated with chemical oxidants. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award will support the principal investigator's research objectives to create a microbead-based reactivity-directed analysis assay for detecting organic electrophiles in water matrices and...
- The National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $400,000 project grant to the University of Colorado to develop lichen-inspired bioactive surfaces for improving indoor environmental quality. The 3-year project aims to engineer industrial microbes to create lichen-inspired surfaces on building materials like wood, stone, brick, and concrete. The goal is to determine design principles for sustainable bioactive surfaces that can remove indoor pollutants and control...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041), will provide $212,973 to the University of Utah from July 2023 to June 2026 to conduct collaborative research on the molecular and nanoscale structure and interactions of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals." The research will investigate PFAS surfactants in aqueous solutions and at water-air, water-oil, and water-solid...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ECLIPSE-PFAS: INTERFACIAL PLASMA-LIQUID TRANSPORT AND REACTIVITY WITH SURFACTANT MOLECULES FOR EFFICIENT PFAS REMOVAL" project. This 3-year collaborative research effort aims to investigate how plasma interacts with PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)-contaminated...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $420,000 in funding to the Regents of the University of Michigan to study the chemical reactions and fates of quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) in indoor environments. The key objectives are to measure the oxidation kinetics and reaction products formed when QACs, commonly used as antimicrobial agents in cleaning products, undergo atmospheric aging processes indoors. This will involve evaluating the oxidation of representative QAC compounds using hydroxyl radicals and/or ozone to understand how condensed phase radical cycling in aerosol particles and surface films impacts QAC oxidation rates. The research will help identify the transformation products of QACs and model where they may travel and their potential toxicity to humans. The insights from this 3-year project will support the development of safer cleaning methods for various indoor environments to improve public health.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $420.0k | 7/21/25 |